health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends …

We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to … smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present evidence of selection, relying on extensive data … on morbidity and mortality. We show that health based selection into smoking has increased over the last fifty years with …

We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was …

Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We … show that their result depends critically on the assumption that initial health has no causal effect on subsequent economic … growth. We argue that such an effect is likely, primarily because childhood health affects adult productivity. In our …

parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and … biological and adopting parents. We find that the health of the biological parents affects the health of their adopted children …-term health. However, we also find strong evidence that the educational attainment of the adopting mother has a significant impact …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …

, 2020, 40 states and the District of Columbia adopted SIPOs. This study explores the impact of SIPOs on health, with …

potential mechanisms, including health behaviors, lifestyles, earnings, work conditions, and health at the start of the risk … for women. We discuss the implications for policies aimed at improving health and longevity and reducing health inequality …

Longevity Survey, we study health in oldest old population. We measure health using the Katz Index of Activities of Daily Living … bad health both in term of the Index of ADL and mortality. Effects of gender on the Index of ADL and on mortality are … level of the oldest-old and of his/her spouse, etc., plays an insignificant role in the health of oldest-old. Oldest …